class tags on transactions

Eric Anopolsky erpo41 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 23:47:58 EDT 2008


That's what I'm doing right now, but I'm not very happy with it. It
sounds like this is a feature with broad appeal, though.

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 11:59 +1000, musicman wrote:
> no idea. But I love the idea.
> 
> I do the following to track spending for different grants that we receive:
> 
> have accounts:
> 
> Expenses:
> Expenses:travel
> Expenses:meals
> 
> Expenses:grant1:travel
> Expenses:grant1:meals
> etc
> 
> Expenses:grant2:travel
> Expenses:grant2:meals
> etc
> 
> Expenses:grant3:travel
> Expenses:grant3:meals
> etc
> 
> for example. Then I just include the relevant incomes and the relevant
> expense subaccounts for each grant.
> 
> It's kinda clunky, but I'm not an accountant and am learning as I go.
> 
> cheers
> L.
> 
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Eric Anopolsky <erpo41 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I need the ability to tag transactions with a class. For example, when I
> > hire someone to clean the drain at my rental property (address: 123
> > Linux Ave.), I need to record that as a transfer from Assets:Checking to
> > Expenses:Plumbing and tag the transaction with the name of the property
> > (123 Linux Ave.). Later on, I will need to produce an income and expense
> > by class report to see how much money I'm getting out of and putting
> > into each property.
> >
> > How can I do this?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Eric
> >
> >
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